I immediately dispatched a note to the Spanish minister of state, conveying to him the sad intelligence of Secretary Hay's death, and I instructed the janitor to half-mast the flag of the legation and to display the usual symbols of mourning. * I have received from the minister of state a letter, copy and translation of which I inclose. EXCELLENCY: I have learned with deep regret, through your excellency's courteous letter of yesterday, of the unexpected death of Mr. John Hay, the United States Secretary of State, of which misfortune I had been acquainted by telegraph. In declaring to your excellency my profound grief for so grievous a loss which has been sustained by your excellency and by the American Government, I wish in the name of His Majesty's Government and in my own name to express heartfelt sorrow. I avail, etc., No. 18.] F. SANCHEZ ROMAN. Minister Graves to the Secretary of State. AMERICAN LEGATION, SIR: I have the honor to transmit herewith a letter of the minister for foreign affairs, expressing the condolence of the Government of Sweden and Norway at the decease of Mr. Hay. I have the honor to be, etc., [Inclosure. Translation.] CHARLES H. GRAVES. The Minister of Foreign Affairs to Minister Graves. MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, MR. MINISTER: I had the honor of receiving the letter dated yesterday, in which you informed me of the decease of Mr. John Hay, Secretary of State of the United States of America. I wish to express to you how greatly the King's Government sympathizes in the loss which your country has just sustained by the death of this eminent statesman, with whom the representatives of the King in Washington have always had such excellent relations. Please except, etc., GYLDENSTOLPE. The Swiss Minister to the Acting Secretary of State. [Translation.] LEGATION OF SWITZERLAND, Washington, D. C., July 3, 1905. MR. ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE: In the name of the Swiss Federal Council, the President of the Confederation, Mr. Ruchet, has just instructed me to express to the Government of the United States his sincere condolences for the great loss it has just sustained in the death of Mr. John Hay, Secretary of State. I therefore have the honor to discharge this duty hereby, and to beg you, Mr. Assistant Secretary of State, to be so good as to acquaint President Roosevelt with the share taken in this great mourning by the Swiss Federal Council. Be pleased, etc., L. VOGEL. The appointed Turkish Minister to the Acting Secretary of State. [Translation.] IMPERIAL LEGATION OF TURKEY, MR. SECRETARY: I exceedingly regret to learn from the notice I have just received the sad intelligence of the death of His Excellency Mr. John Hay, Secretary of State. I hasten to transmit to you the keen regrets of the Imperial Government at the untimely loss of that illustrious and great statesman, in which regrets I personally join. Be pleased to accept, Sir, in this sorrowful circumstance, the expression of my profound and keen sympathy. CHEKIB. The Uruguayan Minister to the Acting Secretary of State. [Translation.] Honorable SECRETARY OF STATE: LEGATION OF URUGUAY, Washington, D. C., July 1, 1905. Since my arrival at Washington I have been indebted to the Hon. John Hay, in the capacity with which I am vested, for attentions that I supremely appreciate and which I have ever endeavored to acknowledge by professions of my high and respectful affection. On this day of his demise, unexpected and sorrowful, it behooves me to present to your excellency, in the name of my government and in my own, the most profound condolences for this great loss, and I beg that you may be so good as to transmit them to His Excellency the President, of whom the illustrious deceased was a prominent associate in the arduous duties of State, as well as a glorious citizen of the United States, for the leading part he took in international questions of the greatest importance for mankind and universal civilization. Your excellency will, therefore, consider me a true and grieved participant in the mourning of the great American nation for the austere citizen who has been taken away from it and of whose talents and virtues I was a close admirer. I salute, etc., EDO. ACEVEDO DIAZ. The Venezuelan Chargé to the Acting Secretary of State. [Translation.] LEGATION OF THE UNITED STATES OF VENEZUELA, MOST EXCELLENT SIR: With the most profound sorrow I have read your courteous note of to-day, by which you announce to me the demise of the Hon. John Hay, Secretary of State, at his country house in Newbury, N. HI., at 12.25 this morning. On this occasion I extend, in the name of my government and in my own, the most sincere expression of condolence for the great loss sustained by the government and the nation. I beg you to accept, etc., N. VELOZ-GOITICOA. APPOINTMENT OF ELIHU ROOT AS SECRETARY OF STATE. The Secretary of State to the Diplomatic and Consular Officers of the United States. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, GENTLEMEN: I have to inform you that the President has appointed me to be Secretary of State of the United States, and that I have this day entered upon the duties of the office. I am, gentlemen, your most obedient servant, ELIHU ROOT. WITHDRAWAL OF THE AMERICAN LEGATION FROM KOREA. The Secretary of State to the Diplomatic Officers of the United States. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, November 25, 1905. GENTLEMEN: I have to inform you that, in view of the convention signed November 17, 1905, between Japan and Korea, by which Japan becomes the medium for conducting the foreign relations of Korea, the American legation at Seoul has been withdrawn, and that the representation of the United States in diplomatic matters effecting American rights of treaty, persons, and property in Korea will hereafter be dealt with through the channel of the Japanese foreign office. I am. etc., MOROCCAN CONFERENCE. ELIHU ROOT. The Secretary of State to Ambassador Storer.a DEPARTMENT OF STATE, SIR: I inclose herewith, for your information, copies of the instructions' issued to the delegates of the United States to the conference to be held at Algeciras, Spain, on December 15, to consider Moroccan affairs. I am, etc., ELIHU ROOT. a The same circular mutatis mutandis to the American representatives in Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and Norway. Printed under the same subject under Morocco, p. 678. ARGENTINE REPUBLIC. REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT IN THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC. Minister Beaupré to the Secretary of State. [Telegram.-Paraphrase.] AMERICAN LEGATION, Buenos Aires, February 4, 1905. Mr. Beaupré reports that a revolution started to-day in Buenos Aires and several of the provinces. Arsenals and police stations were attacked simultaneously, and some of them were taken with a view of seizing the arsenals and making prisoners of the President and the cabinet ministers and to force them to resign. Vigorous measures were taken, however, by the government and many arrests were made. The city has been placed under martial law. Örder will probably soon be restored. Minister Beaupré to the Secretary of State. [Telegram.-Paraphrase.] AMERICAN LEGATION, Buenos Aires, February 5, 1905. (Mr. Beaupré reports that order has been restored in the city and that business and traffic are approaching normal conditions. The indications are that the government will be able to suppress the uprising without difficulty. Telegrams and the press are controlled by the censor.) Minister Beaupré to the Secretary of State. [Telegram.-Paraphrase.] AMERICAN LEGATION, Buenos Aires, February 8, 1905. (Mr. Beaupré reports that the insurrection has been suppressed.) No. 119.] Minister Beaupré to the Secretary of State. AMERICAN LEGATION, Buenos Aires, February 8, 1905. SIR: Supplementing my telegrams of the 4th, 5th, and present instant, I have the honor to report that on the afternoon of the 3d instant rumors of an intended movement subversive of the established government of this country came to the Federal authorities from vari ous parts of the Republic. These rumors were at first discredited, but finally proved so persistent that the President and heads of the various departments of the government proceeded to take measures of precaution. In the early hours of the morning of the next day, the 4th instant, the anticipated outbreak came simultaneously in the capital, Rosario, Mendoza, Cordoba, and Bahia Blanca, these being the largest cities of the Republic and the principal political and military centers. In the capital the plan of the revolutionists seems to have been to attack the police stations and military arsenal, with a view perhaps of forcing the police of the capital into their ranks and of supplying themselves with arms and munitions. At the arsenal, by a simple statagem of the minister of war, the malcontents were lured into the building and arrested. About the police stations there was some fighting, particularly at Station No. 14; but the insurgents proved unprepared and insufficiently organized, so that by dawn the movement had completely failed in this city. Except that many of the shops remained closed throughout the day of the 4th, and except for the presence of armed police in the streets, there were no evidences of any revolutionary effort. Some half dozen fatalities are reported. The prontpt and effective suppression of the revolution in this city is due in large measure to the energy and judgment displayed by the President and his ministers, who spent the entire night in the Government House in council. Following up the precautionary measures of the 3d instant and the active measures of the night of the 3d and 4th, the President proceeded at 8 a. m. of the 4th to declare the Republic in a state of siege for a period of thirty days, to call out the reserves and to establish a censorship of the press and of the telegraph service. The movement in Rosario was about as brief and unsuccessful as that in the capital, so that by the forenoon of the 4th it was known to have failed in the two principal cities of the Republic. Here there was also some blood shed. In the meantime the real center of the movement was the city of Cordoba, while serious trouble seemed in view in the city of Mendoza, where the revolutionists were said to be in a strong position, and in the province of Buenos Aires, where troops and marines were already in movement from Bahia Blanca upon the capital. To prevent concentration from these points upon the capital all railway service was suspended, the rails even being removed in various places by order of the government. Then the government proceeded to take the aggressive. General Winter was sent at noon of the 5th by rail to Cordoba with two batteries of the Second Artillery, 150 men, and 100 marines. He was joined by the Fifth Artillery from Parana and 300 prison guards. He was further joined en route by forces of country police. On the same day General Saturnino García was sent from Tucuman with the Fifth Cavalry, Third Mountain Artillery, and First Chasseurs to join General Winter. The same day General Fotheringham was ordered to Mendoza with the Thirteenth infantry and the Fourth Artillery, and was joined by Lieutenant-Colonel Rawson with 300 men and by Colonel Tiscornia with the Fourth Infantry and Second Artillery. To meet the forces proceeding under Major Villamayor across the province of Buenos Aires from Bahia Blanca upon the capital the gendarmeria of the province was concentrated in La Plata. Thence there were sent out two divisions by train, the first under Colonel Zeballos, consisting of 450 gendarmes armed with Remingtons and |